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* [[Elizabeth Bear]], ''[[Whiskey and Water|Whiskey and Water: A Novel of the Promethean Age]]'' (Paperback - Jul 3, 2007)
* [[Elizabeth Bear]], ''[[Whiskey and Water|Whiskey and Water: A Novel of the Promethean Age]]'' (Paperback - Jul 3, 2007)
* [[Elizabeth Bear]], ''[[Undertow (novel)|Undertow]]'' (Mass Market Paperback - Jul 31, 2007)
* [[Elizabeth Bear]], ''[[Undertow (novel)|Undertow]]'' (Mass Market Paperback - Jul 31, 2007)
* [[Anne Bishop]], ''[[Belladonna]]'' (Hardcover - Mar 6, 2007)
* [[Patricia Briggs]], ''[[Blood Bound]]'' (Paperback - Jan 30, 2007)
* [[Patricia Briggs]], ''[[Blood Bound]]'' (Paperback - Jan 30, 2007)
* [[Kathleen Bryan]], ''[[The Serpent and the Rose]]'' (Trade paperback - Mar 6, 2007)
* [[Lois McMaster Bujold]], ''[[Legacy (novel)|Legacy]] (The Sharing Knife #2)'' (Hardcover - Jul 1, 2007)
* [[Lois McMaster Bujold]], ''[[Legacy (novel)|Legacy]] (The Sharing Knife #2)'' (Hardcover - Jul 1, 2007)
* [[Jacqueline Carey]], ''[[Kushiel's Justice]] (Imriel Trilogy #2)'' (Hardcover - Jun 1, 2007)
* [[Jacqueline Carey]], ''[[Kushiel's Justice]] (Imriel Trilogy #2)'' (Hardcover - Jun 1, 2007)
* [[Brenda Cooper]], ''[[The Silver Ship and the Sea]]'' (Hardcover - Mar 20, 2007)
* [[L. Timmel Duchamp]], ''[[Tsunami: Book Three of the Marq'ssan Cycle]] (Trade Paperback - Jan 1, 2007)
* [[L. Timmel Duchamp]], ''[[Tsunami: Book Three of the Marq'ssan Cycle]] (Trade Paperback - Jan 1, 2007)
* [[Carol Emshwiller]], ''[[The Secret City: A Novel]]'' (Paperback - April 1, 2007)
* [[Carol Emshwiller]], ''[[The Secret City: A Novel]]'' (Paperback - April 1, 2007)
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* [[Mercedes Lackey]] and [[James Mallory]], ''[[The Phoenix Unchained: Book One of The Enduring Flame]]'' (Hardcover - Sep 18, 2007)
* [[Mercedes Lackey]] and [[James Mallory]], ''[[The Phoenix Unchained: Book One of The Enduring Flame]]'' (Hardcover - Sep 18, 2007)
* [[Ursula K. Le Guin]], ''[[Powers (novel)|Powers]] (Annals of the Western Shore)'' (Hardcover - Sep 1, 2007)
* [[Ursula K. Le Guin]], ''[[Powers (novel)|Powers]] (Annals of the Western Shore)'' (Hardcover - Sep 1, 2007)
* [[Julianne Lee]], ''[[Knight's Blood]]'' (Mass market paperback - Feb 27, 2007)
* [[Tanith Lee]], ''[[No Flame But Mine]]''
* [[Tanith Lee]], ''[[No Flame But Mine]]''
* [[Doris Lessing]], ''[[The Cleft]]: A Novel'' (Hardcover - Aug 1, 2007)
* [[Doris Lessing]], ''[[The Cleft]]: A Novel'' (Hardcover - Aug 1, 2007)
* [[Laurie Marks]], ''[[Water Logic]]'' (Paperback - June, 2007)
* [[Laurie Marks]], ''[[Water Logic]]'' (Paperback - June, 2007)
* [[Sandra McDonald]], ''[[The Outback Stars]]'' (Hardcover - Apr 17, 2007)
* [[Sophia McDougall]], ''[[Rome Burning]]''
* [[Sophia McDougall]], ''[[Rome Burning]]''
* [[Catriona McCloud]], ''[[Growing Up Again]]''
* [[Catriona McCloud]], ''[[Growing Up Again]]''
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* [[Sarah Monette]], ''[[The Mirador]]'' (Hardcover - Aug 7, 2007)
* [[Sarah Monette]], ''[[The Mirador]]'' (Hardcover - Aug 7, 2007)
* [[Elizabeth Moon]], ''[[Command Decision]]'' (Hardcover - Feb 27, 2007)
* [[Elizabeth Moon]], ''[[Command Decision]]'' (Hardcover - Feb 27, 2007)
* [[Fuyumi Ono]], ''[[The Twelve Kingdoms]]: Sea of Shadow'' (Hardcover - Mar 13, 2007)
* [[Susan Palwick]], ''[[Shelter]]'' (Paperback - Jun 12, 2007)
* [[Susan Palwick]], ''[[Shelter]]'' (Paperback - Jun 12, 2007)
* [[Jennifer Roberson]], ''[[Deepwood]]'' (Hardcover - Jul 3, 2007)
* [[Jennifer Roberson]], ''[[Deepwood]]'' (Hardcover - Jul 3, 2007)
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* [[Sherwood Smith]],  ''[[The Fox]]'' (Hardcover - Aug 7, 2007)
* [[Sherwood Smith]],  ''[[The Fox]]'' (Hardcover - Aug 7, 2007)
* [[Wen Spencer]], ''[[Endless Blue]]'' (Hardcover - Dec 4, 2007)
* [[Wen Spencer]], ''[[Endless Blue]]'' (Hardcover - Dec 4, 2007)
* [[Steph Swainston]], ''[[The Modern World]]'' (Hardcover - May 17, 2007)
* [[Steph Swainston]], ''[[The Modern World]]'' (Hardcover - May 17, 2007) also known as [[Dangerous Offspring]] in the USA (Trade paperback - Jun 26, 2007)
* [[Sheri S. Tepper]], ''[[The Margarets]]'' (Hardcover - Jun 1, 2007)
* [[Sheri S. Tepper]], ''[[The Margarets]]'' (Hardcover - Jun 1, 2007)
* [[Karen Traviss]], ''[[Ally (novel)|Ally]]'' (Mass Market Paperback - Mar 27, 2007)
* [[Karen Traviss]], ''[[Ally (novel)|Ally]]'' (Mass Market Paperback - Mar 27, 2007)
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* [[Ysabeau S. Wilce]], ''[[Flora Segunda]]'' (Hardcover - Jan 1, 2007)
* [[Ysabeau S. Wilce]], ''[[Flora Segunda]]'' (Hardcover - Jan 1, 2007)
* [[Liz Williams]], ''[[Bloodmind]]'' (Trade paperback - Feb 16, 2007)
* [[Liz Williams]], ''[[Bloodmind]]'' (Trade paperback - Feb 16, 2007)
* [[Susan Wright]], ''[[A Pound of Flesh]]'' (Trade paperback - Feb 6, 2007)
* [[Sarah Zettel]], ''[[Sword of the Deceiver]]'' (Hardcover - Mar 20, 2007)


===Novella===
===Novella===

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This is a list of women eligible for SF awards to be given out in 2008 based on works published from January 1, 2007, to December 31, 2007. Awards that follow this eligibility format include the Hugo, the Campbell, the World Fantasy Award, the Tiptree, and the Phillip K. Dick. (The Nebulas have a rolling period of eligibility based on the specific date a work was published.) We're listing these women to bring them greater attention, to share information about them for ourselves, and to help avoid problems like the 2006 Hugo vacuum.

Please include here any eligible woman, along with the information about her eligible work: title, publication date, and format. For novels, it's useful to search Amazon for the author's name: the list of works has publication date and format right there.

Note: Some awards are based on first publication and other awards are based on first publication in the US, England, etc. If a work was first published outside of the time period but would be eligible for some awards, please add it and add in parentheses any restrictions or explanations about eligibility.

Women eligible for Campbell Best New Writer

Authors who published their first work in 2006 or 2007

Women eligible for work-specific awards

A Note on Categories

Each set of awards defines its categories in its own way. There is a lot of overlap, but inevitably differences arise. For example, some awards allow SF and fantasy, others only one, and others have separate categories. Different awards define the types of short fiction with different word lengths. And different awards have different eligibility rules as regards to where a work is published, when it is published, and the nationality of the author(s). Please refer to the award descriptions below for more details.

Novel

Hugo, World Fantasy, Locus and Campbell Memorial eligible: if published in paperback in the US, Philip K. Dick eligible

Novella

Hugo, Locus and World Fantasy eligible; Hugo rules say a novella is roughly 17,500-40,000 words

Novelette

Hugo eligible; Hugo rules say a novelette is roughly 7,500-17,500 words, which may count as a novella for the World Fantasy, or a short story for the World Fantasy or Sturgeon

Short Story

Hugo, Locus, World Fantasy, and Sturgeon eligible

Related Book

Hugo and Locus eligible

Dramatic Presentation, Long Form

Hugo eligible

Written and/or directed by women, as indicated:

Dramatic Presentation, Short Form

Hugo eligible

Written and/or directed by women, as indicated:

Anthology

World Fantasy and Locus eligible

Collection

World Fantasy and Locus eligible

Women eligible for multi-work awards

Editor, Long Form

Hugo eligible

Editor, Short Form

Hugo eligible

Professional Artist

Hugo and World Fantasy eligible

Semiprozine

Hugo eligible

Fanzine

Hugo eligible

Fan Writer

Hugo eligible

Fan Artist

Hugo eligible

Eligibility and voting by award

Arthur C Clarke Award

The Arthur C. Clarke Award [2] is awarded every year to the best science fiction novel which received its first British publication during the previous calendar year. The Award is chosen by jury. Note that the Clarke is serious about being a "science fiction" award and does not subsume fantasy under the SF label.

Aurealis Awards

Juried awards for works by Australian writers, regardless of where they are published. [3]

Aurora Awards

Fan awards given by Canadian fans.

Prix Boréal

Francophone Canadian award, voted by fans.

British Science Fiction Association Awards

The BSFAs [4] are fan awards voted on by members of the BSFA and by members of the current year's Eastercon. The current categories are Novel, Short Fiction and Artwork.

Campbell

Not to be confused with the Campbell Memorial award, the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer is for a writer whose first work of science fiction or fantasy was published in the previous two calendar years. It is nominated, voted on, and awarded by the Worldcon membership exactly like the Hugos. The Awards is presented by Dell Magazines, who have subcontracted administration of the Award to WSFS. An unofficial list of eligible authors (of all genders) is maintained at Writertopia [5].

Campbell Memorial

The John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel is for a novel published anywhere in the world in the previous year. It is awarded by a small, persistent jury, consisting of: Gregory Benford, Paul A. Carter, James Gunn, Elizabeth Anne Hull, Christopher McKitterick, Farah Mendlesohn, Pamela Sargent, and T.A. Shippey. Books are nominated in December of their eligible year by the jurors, and potentially by publishers (Chris McKitterick invites contact on the Campbell Memorial website). Finalists are announced in April, and the winner determined in May. The award is handed out on the 4th of July weekend at the Campbell Conference Awards Banquet at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas.

Carl Brandon Awards

These juried awards are given by the Carl Brandon Society [6]. There are two awards. The Parallax Award is given to works of fiction created by a person of color. The Kindred Award is given to any work of speculative fiction dealing with issues of race and ethnicity; nominees may be of any racial or ethnic group.

Ditmar Awards

The Ditmars are fan awards voted on by Australian fans. You have to be an Australian resident to vote, otherwise there are no voting qualifications.

Hugo

Eligible works are those first published in the previous calendar year anywhere in the world, in any language. Works first published in a language other than English are also eligible on their first publication anywhere in the world in English. Works are nominated by anyone who is a supporting or attending member of the previous Worldcon or the Worldcon that will hand out the award that year. For the 2008 awards, members of either the Yokohama or Denver Worldcons can nominate. Voting on the final ballot is open only to supporting and attending members of the current year's Worldcon, which for 2008 will be Denver. The 2008 Hugos will be awarded August 9th, 2008, in Denver, Colorado.

The full rules for the Hugo Awards are available in Article 3 of the WSFS Constitution [7]. For more detailed information about how the Hugos work see the Hugo FAQ [8] and Hugo Voting Explanation [9] at Emerald City.

Lambda Literary Award

One of 24 awards handed out annually by the Lambda Literary Foundation, the country's leading organization for LGBT literature, is for Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror.

Locus Poll

The Locus Poll is run by Locus Magazine through its web site [10]. Voting is open to anyone who can access the online voting form (which, if you are reading this, means YOU!). The voting period is generally around March with short lists being announced in April and the awards presented at a ceremony at the Science Fiction Museum in June. Note that there is no second round of voting on the short lists. The winners are decided by the online vote but Locus announces the top five positions (without giving their order) so as to generate publicity for the Poll.

The voting form lists suggested authors and works taken primarily from the previous year's Recommended Reading List (published in the January issue of Locus). However, write-in nominees are allowed. Novels are divided into four categories: SF, fantasy, YA and first novel. The final say as to which novel a category belongs in is taken by the Locus staff.

Nebula

Voted and presented by the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA).

Philip K. Dick

The Philip K. Dick Award [11] is for science fiction published originally in the USA in paperback form. Works published in 2007 will be given a 2007 award in 2008. Awards are decided by a small panel of judges which changes every year. The judges for 2007's books are: Steve Miller, Chris Moriarty, Steven Piziks, Randy Schroeder, and Ann Tonsor Zeddies. The award will be given at Norwescon, March 20-23, 2008, in Seattle.

Sidewise Awards

The Sidewise Awards for Alternate History honors the best genre publications of the year. Two awards, the Short-Form and Long-Form, are handed out annually. Selection of work is made by a panel of six readers. To be considered, a work must have either first English-language publication or first American publication in the calendar year prior to the year in which the award is to be presented.

Spectrum Awards

The Spectrum Awards [12] are given for works in science fiction, fantasy and horror which include positive explorations of gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered characters, themes, or issues. They are juried awards with an open nomination process (i.e. anyone may nominate a work, but the jury decides who wins). The current categories are Novel, Short Fiction and Other.

Sunburst Award

The Sunburst [13] is a juried award for "Canadian Literature of the Fantastic" (so can be a collection or even short fiction as well as a novel). Eligible works must be written by Canadians but can be published in any country.

Sturgeon

The Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award is for a short story published anywhere in the world in the previous year. It is awarded by a small, persistent jury, consisting of: James Gunn, Kij Johnson, Frederik Pohl, George Zebrowski, and Noel Sturgeon. It is nominated, voted on, and awarded exactly like the Campbell Memorial Awards are, except that Chris McKitterick invites "a wide variety of science-fiction reviewers and serious readers", as well as editors, to send in nominations.

Tiptree

The James Tiptree, Jr. Award [14] is for a work of any form published anywhere in the world "which expands or explores our understanding of gender". Works published in 2007 will be given a 2007 award in 2008. "Anyone and everyone" is encouraged to nominate works using the web form on the tiptree.org website. Awards are decided by a panel of five judges which differs every year. The winners will be announced in March of 2008 and the awards presented at Wiscon on May 24, 2008.

World Fantasy

The World Fantasy Award [15] is for works published anywhere in the world in the previous year. Works are nominated and voted on by a combination of members of the World Fantasy Convention and a small panel of judges which differs every year. Two of the five nominees in each category are chosen by the membership, the other three by the judges. The winners are chosen by the judges from the list of nominees. For the 2007 awards, the judges were announced in late February 2007, and the announcement noted that all materials sent to them must be received by June 1; it will probably be similar for the 2008 awards. The 2008 awards will be given out at the World Fantasy Convention, on Sunday afternoon, November 2, 2008, in Alberta.

Award Activism

So not enough women are winning genre fiction and related awards. That's not good. But it isn't going to change unless we (and by "we" we mean "you" as well) do something about it. So what can you do?

Locus Poll

If you can read this wiki then you can vote in the Locus Poll. You have no excuse. Check the Locus web site each March.

Hugo

The Hugos are owned by the World Science Fiction Society (WSFS). Voting is open only to WSFS members, but you can easily become a member simply by joining the current year's Worldcon. Fortunately you don't have to actually attend the convention (which can get very expensive). You can buy a supporting membership. This entitles you to nominate and vote in the Hugos, nominate for the following year's Hugos, and vote in the site selection ballot which determines where Worldcon will be held two years later. You also get copies of all of the current Worldcon's publications (a glossy souvenir book and a number of progress reports).

The cost of a Supporting Membership varies each year, and is currently running in the range $40-$50. That's less than $1 a week to do your bit for promoting women writers.

You may have heard that voting in site selection also costs money. It does, but you get a free supporting membership in the winning convention in return for your voting fee. If you were going to buy that supporting membership anyway you are not out of pocket. And if you end up wanting to attend you can upgrade to an attending membership, usually at a discount for having voted.

Some regular WSFS members believe that supporting memberships are too expensive and/or that Worldcons should offer a cheaper voting membership to encourage participation in the Hugos. WSFS is a democratic organization whose rules are set by a meeting open to all members held at Worldcon. Also individual Worldcons have considerable leeway in what memberships they can offer, and as they are volunteer-run they are always looking for enthusiastic fans to help out. If you are serious about changing the Hugos, it is possible to get involved in WSFS politics and have an impact.

If you really can't afford a supporting membership, you can still influence those who can. During the nomination period there is much online discussion of potential nominees. The most prominent site for such discussion is the Hugo_Recommend LiveJournal community [16]. Anyone can recommend works/people here, and the blog is read by many people who do have Hugo nominating rights.

Finally, while thousands of people are eligible to nominate and vote in the Hugos each year, less than 1,000 actually do so. If you can nominate and/or vote, please do so.

World Fantasy

Members of the World Fantasy Convention have a say in the nominees (but not the final winners) in the World Fantasy Awards. Unlike Worldcon, WFC has no supporting memberships. Joining the convention will cost you at least $100, but that does get you the right to nominate for three years. WFC is predominantly an event for industry professionals rather than for fans, so you may find it less interesting to attend than Worldcon or Wiscon. But if you are an industry professional it is well worth attending for professional reasons, and you get to nominate in the awards.

National Fan Awards

Many countries have fan awards given out by fan associations or by national conventions. These include the BSFA Awards (UK), the Auroras (Canada) and the Ditmars (Australia). The USA has no national fan awards, but a number of regional fan groups do give awards to local writers. If you are an active fan you can get involved in voting in these awards.

Judged (juried) Awards

Judged (also "juried") awards are decided by the judges, and you generally don't get to be a judge unless you are a well known writer, editor or critic, or perhaps a well-respected fan. But that doesn't mean that the rest of us cannot at least try to influence the results.

To start with, judges read. For all you know, some award judges may be reading your blog. What you say about fiction may influence them.

Secondly, some judged awards only consider books submitted to them by publishers. A publisher may not bother to submit a book if it hasn't been selling well, or has been getting poor reviews. Buying books, and writing about them when you find that they are good, can help them win judged awards.

And finally, you can complain about the results if you don't like them. You never know, the following year's jury might take your complaints to heart. But before you go yelling "bastards" at the judges, please remember that awards are given for excellence, not for gender. So long as more men get published than women, it is statistically more likely that men will win awards.

You may also be concerned about the representation on juried panels. While judges certainly try to do a good job, there is some evidence that men are less likely to pick up and read a book by an apparently female author, and it is reasonable to assume that unconscious biases may also inform a judge's evaluation of a work. Thus, ensuring that selection of juries takes into account gender, and other major identities that may implicate relevant social criteria for that award (most often ethnicity, but language or nationality are also likely candidates) is important.

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